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Modcom Approach To English Language

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Research Proposal

Using Modcom Approach to developing speaking skills of tertiary level students.

A Research Proposal to the Graduate Committee of the Department of English (ELT)

By
Kinjal Vora Vishal Patel

Supervisor
Dr. Sunil Shah

H. M. Patel Institute of English Training and Research
Vallabh Vidyanagar
August 2015

Abstract
This is a research proposal for using modcom approach to find out how to improve students’ speaking skills, enhance their performance and help to promote better learning. This proposal is focused on the tertiary level students, who are belonging from Gujarati medium at our university. To speak correct and fluent English is one of the difficult tasks for the students whose background is Gujarati. As …show more content…

To talk about speaking and producing fluent English in Gujarat has been a matter of controversy. Gujarat did not have a suitable policy regarding teaching of English. English education in Gujarat has been made compulsory from primary level: even though the students fail to produce the language in real world. ELT has invented many methods and techniques to make teaching and learning of English very easy and modcom approach is one of them. It has contained ten ground rules into it. They are very much useful in classroom teaching. By using the rules teachers can easily improve the speaking abilities of their students. Through Modcom approach, we can easily make them to produce good …show more content…

For Harmer (1998), teaching speaking based on communicative approach involves speaking activities that tend to follow the basic pattern: Engage- study – active (ESA). This way the teacher makes students fell interested in the topic presented and the students are given tasks to do concerning that topic.
(1) Engage:
In this section the teacher tries to grab the student attention and involved them around the theme proposal.
(2) Study:
In this section the students are asked to focus on language and how it is constructed (Harmer, J. 1998 p. 25)
(3) Activate:
This section provides the students an opportunity to put in practice everything that was previously learned. The course book provides so many activities to get the student using language freely and communicatively and out put the language.
The first and the second examples were taken from the book How to Teach English, by Harmer (1998,p. 89-90).
“We cannot teach students everything so we have to train to teach themselves”. (Harmer

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